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by adastra22 812 days ago
Better bioweapons would potentially be more targeted, and/or have reproductive clocks that disable them after a certain number of generations. But you absolutely run the risk of them evolving away from such restrictions.
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My understanding is that such a bioweapon cannot be created with current technology.

We know such things are possible, but we can't actually do them.

Genetic kill timers are production technology that has already been deployed. There are genetically engineered mosquitoes for example that become unviable after a certain number of generations. The idea being that you mix them into the population, they cross breed and spread their genes, then 10 or 50 generations later, they suddenly are infertile en masse and the whole species dies out.